Husband of murdered Tyrone woman criticises law in North
The husband of a Co Tyrone woman murdered by a serial sex offender has criticised the law in the North which gave the perpetrator his freedom to kill.
Michael Harron, whose wife Attracta was killed by Trevor Hamilton only four months after he was released from a seven year rape sentence, has said the law in the North differs from that in England.
Hamilton has now become the first person ever to be given a whole life sentence in the North, but Michael Harron said it should never have come to that.
“If we had of had the English legislation when he came to 50% of his sentence he would never have been released because it was agreed he was so much of a danger,” Mr Harron said today.
“But the inadequate protection for women in Northern Ireland meant that a psychopath was let loose.”
“The probation service did their best, but he successfully evaded them. He set out to evade them as much as he had set out to murder my wife.”
